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Hatem Ibrahim
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Dr. Ibrahim is a professor in Department of Architecture and Urban Planning in Qatar University. He has research experience in Architectural Design process and Simulation, Architectural Education, A Knowledge-Based System Assisted Architectural Application, Intelligent Buildings, Sustainable Design, and Green Eco-Building. Dr. Ibrahim has conducted extensive research and delivered many funded projects related to urban development, architectural education, sustainable design, and green building.
Dr. Ibrahim has advised and consulted for a range of international development agencies, national governments and non-governmental organizations.
Dr. Ibrahim is based at the University of Helwan University, Cairo-Egypt, and served
Dr. Ibrahim obtained his Master degree from Assiut University-Egypt in 1993, followed by his MPhil in 1996 and his PhD in 2001 from School of Architecture and Building Engineering-Liverpool University-UK.
Dr. Ibrahim was working as research assistance in California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo-Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC)-USA.
Dr. Ibrahim has a good experience as an expert for training professional and engineers of many Arabian organizations includes Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, KSA, and Lebanon. He also participated in many published educational books with the Ministry of Education in Egypt, in addition to his publications at Scientific & Professional Journals, Scientific & Professional Meetings.
Dr. Ibrahim is a member in numbers of scientific and educational organization includes Institute of Acoustics-England, Egyptian Architects Association, Egyptian Society of Engineers-Egypt, Engineers Syndicate-Egypt, Ministry of Education-Egypt, Committee of Development the Industrial Education (CDIE)-Architectural Branch-Egypt, Member in Saudi OMRAN Society. Dr. Ibrahim awarded a Scientific Recognition and Merit Awards from King Saud University in Riyadh and a KSU’s gold medal as the best academic electronic educational site in 2008.
Phone: +974 4403 4345
Address: College of Engineering, Qatar University
P.O. Box: 2713 Doha- Qatar.
Dr. Ibrahim is a professor in Department of Architecture and Urban Planning in Qatar University. He has research experience in Architectural Design process and Simulation, Architectural Education, A Knowledge-Based System Assisted Architectural Application, Intelligent Buildings, Sustainable Design, and Green Eco-Building. Dr. Ibrahim has conducted extensive research and delivered many funded projects related to urban development, architectural education, sustainable design, and green building.
Dr. Ibrahim has advised and consulted for a range of international development agencies, national governments and non-governmental organizations.
Dr. Ibrahim is based at the University of Helwan University, Cairo-Egypt, and served
Dr. Ibrahim obtained his Master degree from Assiut University-Egypt in 1993, followed by his MPhil in 1996 and his PhD in 2001 from School of Architecture and Building Engineering-Liverpool University-UK.
Dr. Ibrahim was working as research assistance in California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo-Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC)-USA.
Dr. Ibrahim has a good experience as an expert for training professional and engineers of many Arabian organizations includes Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, KSA, and Lebanon. He also participated in many published educational books with the Ministry of Education in Egypt, in addition to his publications at Scientific & Professional Journals, Scientific & Professional Meetings.
Dr. Ibrahim is a member in numbers of scientific and educational organization includes Institute of Acoustics-England, Egyptian Architects Association, Egyptian Society of Engineers-Egypt, Engineers Syndicate-Egypt, Ministry of Education-Egypt, Committee of Development the Industrial Education (CDIE)-Architectural Branch-Egypt, Member in Saudi OMRAN Society. Dr. Ibrahim awarded a Scientific Recognition and Merit Awards from King Saud University in Riyadh and a KSU’s gold medal as the best academic electronic educational site in 2008.
Phone: +974 4403 4345
Address: College of Engineering, Qatar University
P.O. Box: 2713 Doha- Qatar.
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In line with the previous and as the WWF Global article “Human demand outstrips nature’s supply” cited; the footprint of high income countries is three times that of middle income countries and five times that of low income countries. It is clear that moving the development capacity forward is essential for increasing the economic system output in Qatar. However, managing for sustainability will be impossible without tools that allow us to account for our demand on and supply of; ecological resources for different variables of sustainability, including landscape ecology performance.
The paper intends to introduce a descriptive ecology approach for landscape in Qatar based on the characteristic of the country.
The paper developed a new point and credit system with a different weight more adaptable to Qatar environment as an approach for developing a Green Metric System for tall buildings in Qatar. The credits were distributed based on the condition of Qatar in terms of the availability of materials, the indoor thermal comfort, the value of the reservation and the site impact, the energy consumption in relation to resources, the innovation in design and the water management.
The paper studied Tornado tower as one of the significant tall building in Qatar, the results of this study were analyzed in terms of qualifying green by developing a questionnaire that distributed to the experts in the field of Green Architecture as an approach for evaluating the developed scheme.
The re-weighted green variables were applied on the evaluation process. The author used the main criteria and credits of LEED as a reference for the developing of the new Green Metric for Doha tall buildings.
Keywords: Green architecture, tall buildings, Qatar, tornado tower, LEED, green assessment tools
Research Objective:
Despite of its small size, Qatar has one of the largest growing economies in the world. According to Business Monitor International, Qatar’s construction sector is set to reach 33 billion Qatari Riyals ($9.06 billion) by year 2012; the market has identified Qatar as one of the busiest construction areas in the world. In line with this, tall buildings have arisen in Doha city-capital of Qatar because of economic necessity, developments of tall buildings go up almost daily in Doha’s business downtown area, and most of them are still under construction, while to the north entire new cities and man-made islands are being developed, accordingly, government officials have revealed that Qatar will see the rise of about 800 tall buildings by year 2016. With the materialization of such tall building construction projects in Qatar, which address the massive demand for office spaces, and life style properties, the paper addresses the needs of developing rigorous metrics and tools for assessing environmental performance of tall buildings in Qatar, which enables local authorities, investors, engineers, and even the residents to evaluate the green performance of such type of buildings.
In line with the previous and as the WWF Global article “Human demand outstrips nature’s supply” cited; the footprint of high income countries is three times that of middle income countries and five times that of low income countries. It is clear that moving the development capacity forward is essential for increasing the economic system output in Qatar. However, managing for sustainability will be impossible without tools that allow us to account for our demand on and supply of; ecological resources for different variables of sustainability, including landscape ecology performance.
The paper intends to introduce a descriptive ecology approach for landscape in Qatar based on the characteristic of the country.
The paper developed a new point and credit system with a different weight more adaptable to Qatar environment as an approach for developing a Green Metric System for tall buildings in Qatar. The credits were distributed based on the condition of Qatar in terms of the availability of materials, the indoor thermal comfort, the value of the reservation and the site impact, the energy consumption in relation to resources, the innovation in design and the water management.
The paper studied Tornado tower as one of the significant tall building in Qatar, the results of this study were analyzed in terms of qualifying green by developing a questionnaire that distributed to the experts in the field of Green Architecture as an approach for evaluating the developed scheme.
The re-weighted green variables were applied on the evaluation process. The author used the main criteria and credits of LEED as a reference for the developing of the new Green Metric for Doha tall buildings.
Keywords: Green architecture, tall buildings, Qatar, tornado tower, LEED, green assessment tools
Research Objective:
Despite of its small size, Qatar has one of the largest growing economies in the world. According to Business Monitor International, Qatar’s construction sector is set to reach 33 billion Qatari Riyals ($9.06 billion) by year 2012; the market has identified Qatar as one of the busiest construction areas in the world. In line with this, tall buildings have arisen in Doha city-capital of Qatar because of economic necessity, developments of tall buildings go up almost daily in Doha’s business downtown area, and most of them are still under construction, while to the north entire new cities and man-made islands are being developed, accordingly, government officials have revealed that Qatar will see the rise of about 800 tall buildings by year 2016. With the materialization of such tall building construction projects in Qatar, which address the massive demand for office spaces, and life style properties, the paper addresses the needs of developing rigorous metrics and tools for assessing environmental performance of tall buildings in Qatar, which enables local authorities, investors, engineers, and even the residents to evaluate the green performance of such type of buildings.
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In recent years, the rapid growth of Gulf cities has led to a transformation of local settlement structures. The key objective of this paper is to deliver an overview of new residential developments and how they impact urban structure. This paper explores newly formed residential developments in Qatar’s capital, Doha. Identifying the spatial distribution of new housing typologies GIS analyses together with an overlay of Space Syntax models were undertaken to explore the recent transformation of three districts. This is coupled with an analysis of the travel routes of 130 residents which were assessed to investigate key aspects related to fragmentation. The outcomes include both new insights into the understanding of urban development tendencies in Gulf cities and the introduction of a methodological approach to establish responsive strategies in fast-growing and car-dependent cities.
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The recent construction boom has led to new urban development dynamics in Gulf cities driven by real-estate speculations and large infrastructure investments. While in the past affordable housing for medium income migrants and their families was integrated within the fringes of old downtown areas and compound developments in the suburbs, recent investment patterns have led to an increasing challenge of these economically highly engaged social groups to find residences. In recent years, a newly emerging trend in the Gulf region has been the establishment of large scale mass housing projects as new dormitory settlements to address the growing demand for affordable housing. This paper presents an overview of current development patterns by exploring two major affordable housing projects and their impact on sustainability in Doha and Dubai This is undertaken by establishing a preliminary assessment framework that involves relevant sustainability parameters. The assessment reveals the major differences between both projects and their impact on environment, economy and society.
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